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Homocysteine The Cause Of Depression In Patients With Parkinson's

Homocysteine is an amino acid produced by the body. Parkinson's patients are particularly at risk for high homocysteine levels because the metabolism // of levodopa, a drug commonly used to treat the disease, produces the amino acid. New research has shown that patients with Par...

Food Supplements Can Prevent Alzheimer’

... foods or supplements containing the omega-3 fatty acid known as DHA may be the best way to avoid Alzheimer’s disease // even if you carry a gene that makes you susceptible to the condition. For the study researchers first bred mice to carry the gene known to cause the brain lesions characteristic of the ...

Pollution Found To Impair Lung Development

...ffects of air pollutants including nitrogen oxide, acid vapor, and elemental carbon on the lungs of participants. The data showed children living in polluted cities had a lower capacity to exhale than children living in cleaner cities. Thus researchers say potential long-term effects of reduced lung funct...

Treatment Options For Retinitis Pigmentosa Questioned

...initis pigmentosa, the addition of docosahexaenoic acid to vitamin A therapy may not provide long-term benefits, according to a recent study. Researchers followed 221 patients, ranging in age from 18 to 55 years, over four years. All were given 15,000 international units of vitamin A (as retinyl palmitat...

Fortifying Foods Found To Reduce Birth Defects

...ng foods like flour, pasta and cornmeal with folic acid markedly reduces the number of infants born with n...us researchers advice pregnant women to take folic acid supplements in early pregnancy when the neural tube is forming. But women also need to maintain adeq...

Screening Of Blood Samples For Viruses

... donors were involved to determine whether nucleic acid testing (NAT) could identify HIV or hepatitis C RNA in donors who tested negative for viral antibodies.mResults showed five positives for hepatitis C (HCV) RNA among the organ donors and one positive for hepatitis C RNA among tissue donors. There wer...

Valerian was first epilepsy drug

...inks isovaleramide, a form converted to isovaleric acid in the body, looked promising. U.S. company NPS Pharmaceuticals has completed preliminary trials on isovaleramide.If isovaleramide works with few side-effects, it may well replace other medications, Eadie said. "Valerian seems reasonably safe in c...

Certain Food Beneficial for the Heart

...ts that foods with oils containing alpha-linolenic acid may prevent arrhythmias, which can lead to // sudden cardiac death. Researchers studied 76,763 women who had completed a food questionnaire in 1984. The questionnaire was updated every four years until 2000. Researchers then separated the women int...

The Causes Of Acid Reflux Questioned

...igh salt intake significantly increase the risk of acid reflux say researchers according to a new study. ... than 20 years were 70-percent more likely to have acid reflux than non-smokers. Those who routinely added salt to meals were also 70-percent more likely to...

Folic Acid Supplementation During Pregnancy Could Help Prevent Spina Bifida

Folic acid supplementation in early pregnancy can reduce up t...tions of human structure. Results show that folic acid supplementation around the time of conception and early pregnancy was found to prevent up to 70 perc...

Reducing Cancer Risk in Men

...aily capsule containing 120 milligrams of ascorbic acid (vitamin C), 30 milligrams of vitamin E, six milligrams of beta carotene, 100 micrograms of selenium, and 20 milligrams of zinc.Results showed after an average follow-up time of 7.5 years, total cancer incidence and death overall was decreased in men...

Olive Oil Found To Offer A Protective Effect Against Breast Cancer

...oleic acid-rich olive oil fights cancer.// Oleic acid dramatically cut the levels of a gene called Her-2...cancer patients. Researchers also found that oleic acid boosts the effectiveness of the antibody treatment trastuzumab (Herceptin), which targets Her-2/neu ...

Risk Factors For Stroke Studied

...y a gene that produces a higher level of the amino acid homocysteine have a small increased risk for strok...people to have higher or lower levels of the amino acid in their blood. Researchers also compared risks from observational studies with those from the gene-...

Reducing Blood Pressure in Women By Increasing Folate

...ch asked about their folate and supplemental folic acid intake. None of the participants had high blood pr...ially in younger women and that supplemental folic acid appears to be independently associated with a reduction in risk, however they suggest future trials ...

Effective Treatment Option For Psoriasis

...dy researchers say combining a 6 percent salicylic acid gel with tacrolimus ointment might be // an effect...participants randomly received 6 percent salicylic acid gel plus 0.1 percent tacrolimus ointment or 6 percent salicylic acid gel plus vehicle. Results show...

Cancer Causing Herpes Virus At Last May Have A Cure

... cause cancer, may be treated with by glycyrrhizic acid (GA) for total recovery. KSHV is a form of herpe... of Clinical Infectious Diseases, US, glycyrrhizic acid can successfully treat the latent herpes virus. The acid is a component of licorice and reduces th...

Folic Acid and Vitamin B12 Effective In Reducing The Risk Of Hip Fracture After Stroke

A recent study shows folic acid and vitamin B12 are safe and effective in reducing...e. The study was initiated to determine if folic acid and vitamin B12 decreases homocysteine levels. The 314 stroke patients who participated in the study...

Consumption Of Coffee Found To Reduce Diabetes Risk

...n unclear, though it was possible that chlorogenic acid in coffee may indirectly help regulate blood glucose levels. Though studies looking at a direct link between caffeine, coffee drinking and heart disease have produced conflicting results researchers say a moderate consumption, of one or two cups pe...

Treating Latent Herpes With Licorice

... the ability of the licorice compound glycyrrhizic acid ( GA ) to kill cells infected with the latent form of the herpes virus that causes Kaposi sarcoma, a disease characterized by tumors under the skin’s surface that often afflicts people with HIV and AIDS. Results of the study showed that GA killed th...

Inflammation reduced by consuming oily fish

...ry lipid in humans derived from an essential fatty acid in fish oil. Fatty fish is known to contain large amounts of omega-3 fatty acids. Eating fatty fish is beneficial to patients with cardiovascular disease, arthritis, Alzheimer’s disease, and asthma by reducing disease and inflammation. A new class...

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